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The number of Jamaicans immigrating to Canada declined in 1997 and again in 1998. Jamaican immigration to Canada is at an all-time low; it was ranked number 10 by Immigration Canada in 2000. In 2006, 79,850 Jamaican Canadians lived in the City of Toronto, and 30,705 lived in the Toronto suburb of Brampton. [9] [10] According to the Ministère ...
Job opportunities aimed at Jamaicans in Britain starting with post-war reconstruction in the 1940s, and unemployment during the 1950s, [7] both of which continued following the country's independence in 1962, and slow economic growth at home also influenced increased Jamaican emigration. Ample immigration opportunities in Canada, the US and ...
Pages in category "Jamaican emigrants to Canada" The following 171 pages are in this category, out of 171 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Caribbean Canadians are citizens of Canada who were born in the Caribbean or who are of Caribbean descent. Caribbean people first began to settle in Canada in the late eighteenth century. 749,155 people had reported that they have origins in the Caribbean or West Indies in the 2016 Canadian census.
Since the liberalization of Canada's immigration laws in the 1960s immigration from the Caribbean has increased dramatically. As of 2001, of Canada's 783,795-strong Black population (2.5% of Canadian population) nearly 40% have Jamaican heritage , [ 15 ] and an additional 32% have heritage elsewhere in the Caribbean or Bermuda. [ 16 ]
Canadian people of Jamaican descent (2 C, 125 P) Pages in category "Jamaican diaspora in Canada" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Since confederation in 1867 through to the contemporary era, decadal and demi-decadal census reports in Canada have compiled detailed immigration statistics. During this period, the highest annual immigration rate in Canada occurred in 1913, when 400,900 new immigrants accounted for 5.3 percent of the total population, [1] [2] while the greatest number of immigrants admitted to Canada in ...
Jamaican emigrants to Canada (171 P) Pages in category "Canadian people of Jamaican descent" The following 125 pages are in this category, out of 125 total.